Flying to England from the east coast of the United States is really not that bad if you can get a direct flight from Boston, which I did. But I don’t live in Boston, so I had to get a ride from a friend to a bus station in Maine and get on a bus Read more

In 2017 I visited England for the bicentennial of Jane Austen’s death and to take part in the Jane Austen Society of North America International Visitor’s Program. For almost six weeks my husband and I enjoyed all that the bicentennial had to offer. We went to many exhibits in London, Oxford, Winchester, Brighton, Basingstoke, and Read more

So this is the end of my blogging about Masterpiece’s Sanditon because the finale has now been aired in the U.S. If you have not watched it, stop reading now! Spoilers ahead. I decided not to binge watch Sanditon this season. I watched week by week, and I wonder if I had watched episode 6 Read more

Let me start by saying…I knew it! I knew Edward was marrying her for her inheritance. What surprised me is that he fessed up to it in front of Augusta’s uncle and Charlotte. Why do that? He could have gotten what he wanted–her money–but he made her hate him so that he could go home Read more

As the episode begins we find that Georgiana Lambe has been partying like it’s 1999. Yes, she won her case, but is this partying really a sign of celebration? Nah. I’m not too happy with how the writers are portraying Georgiana in this episode. I mean, it’s bad enough that she’s hanging out with Lord Read more

It’s the trial episode! The one we’ve all been waiting for! And it wasn’t even half of an episode? That was weird. I felt like the pacing was off for this major event, but I was delighted with the outcome, of course. I was surprised the judge so quickly agreed to give Georgiana her inheritance, Read more

A lot happened in this episode. No time to waste, right? It’s the final season. I have warmed up to Lord Henry Montrose. Well, I started warming up last episode, but in this one I’m definitely finding myself in fan territory. While we could say, hey, don’t use Georgiana to get your mom to quiet Read more

It’s the final season of a series “inspired by Jane Austen’s unfinished novel,” a show I have loved watching and blogging about. The first episode of the latest season did not disappoint in its continuation of season 2’s plot lines and twists and turns that became a part of the fun of watching this series. Read more

I’m giving a talk at the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies conference on March 11 about a book bench from 2017 featuring an image of Phillis Wheatley Peters (though her name is not included on the bench). The bench was a part of the “Sitting with Jane Art Trail.” Want to know more? Come to Read more

On November 18, 2022, I gave a talk at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Southern Maine in Portland. Thanks to John Muthyala and Donna Anderson for the invite. No, I wasn’t there to talk about Jane Austen and monsters. Well, of course I found a way to talk about Austen, but Read more